We need a crane thread ....... so here it is

Grahams

Grahams

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I looked into those cranes quite heavily in 2007 and was almost tempted to buy one. From memory the capacity was around 1ton at full reach as said by others. Got a client site coming up which would be ideal for one but it still would take a leap of faith to invest.
I had done a lot of work on the continent in the past and mini tower cranes seemed the thing. At the time we were still at the traditional rough terain forklift (pre telehandlers) or 3CX fork stage. I thought a lot about buying a few 3.5t towable mini tower cranes to rent out, but luckily my current business took off. Still think they would be good for single house builds, especially if going SIPPS route.
 
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6feetdown

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I had done a lot of work on the continent in the past and mini tower cranes seemed the thing. At the time we were still at the traditional rough terain forklift (pre telehandlers) or 3CX fork stage. I thought a lot about buying a few 3.5t towable mini tower cranes to rent out, but luckily my current business took off. Still think they would be good for single house builds, especially if going SIPPS route.
There were a cpl at plantworx looked ok too
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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I had done a lot of work on the continent in the past and mini tower cranes seemed the thing. At the time we were still at the traditional rough terain forklift (pre telehandlers) or 3CX fork stage. I thought a lot about buying a few 3.5t towable mini tower cranes to rent out, but luckily my current business took off. Still think they would be good for single house builds, especially if going SIPPS route.
even back in the early '70,s when I had my first experiences of Eu touring holidays as a kid/young teenager, with my parents, those little self erectors were every where .. single house builds/chalets/small dev.s of 4 or 5 flats ...
and some of the places they'd put them in the Austrian/Swiss alps, took some believing .....
without them some of the locations'd've been a nightmare to work on ....
could never understand why they never took off in the UK.

Ruston Bucyrus actually made one on a 10RB chassis/running gear ...
local chap had one he'd bought at an auction and could never work out how to get it up ....
it ended up in Malta - chap by the name of Chris ????? used to come over twice a year, early 80,s, buying cranes and excavators and always called to see us and he bought it, after I'd shown it to him, for not a lot. :rolleyes:

 
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V8Druid

V8Druid

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must be working there tomorrow .... 360 op clearing the snow earlier
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roads and parking cleared ..... 'til the morning at least
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Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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wtf chinesium at its best

 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
wtf chinesium at its best

full stick and superlift rigged with zero ballast attached BTLs ...... the stress on the chassis must've been IMMENSE ... no wonder it broke ..... total operator **** up:oops::oops:o_O:(:cry:
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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top guys.
As in they intercepted a lost Amazon driver and brought our parcel up to us.. 10/10 service(y)
those cranes were an erectors dream ... fast, loads of reach, smooth and comfortable for the operator, so they were usually content to be sat there
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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whoops:

 
V8Druid

V8Druid

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whoops:

as said ....... claiming to have registered it, so why was it not wearing its plates and taxed ? ..... as for the red one ... should still have been taxed either in Holland, or re-reg. here and taxed .....
question is .... are they on hire from the Dutch company or have they been bought/brought in and not registered in UK ... used to happen a lot - I know of one bloke had a few foreign reg cranes that he'd had here a loooong time and ran them on the foreign plates :mad:
 
Lancs Lad

Lancs Lad

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as said ....... claiming to have registered it, so why was it not wearing its plates and taxed ? ..... as for the red one ... should still have been taxed either in Holland, or re-reg. here and taxed .....
Smacks of trying to justify themselves imo. Prob best said nowt. Social.media is a git.
 
V8Druid

V8Druid

do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Smacks of trying to justify themselves imo. Prob best said nowt. Social.media is a git.
the tax issue is the tip of the iceberg really ... import duty will be the main reason it's not been reg. ...... or declare'd, be my opinion - plus all the paperwork, type approval, testing, etc., etc. ... VED is circa 150 quid :rolleyes:
 
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